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By Jim Murphy

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Sept. 24, 2012
12:01 a.m.

Journalists at GateHouse Media newspapers in Southern Illinois are making it easier to follow local sports action on Twitter. A hashtag - #SILscores - is now commonly used to identify tweets related to our coverage of high school, college and recreational sports. In some instances game coverage is in real time.

The hashtag symbol followed by a word or phrase (uninterrupted by spaces) makes it easier to follow a topic in Twitter search.

Readers of our print and digital products are also encouraged to use #SILscores to report developments in area contests they attend as well.